I’ve been trying to work up some concern that the Moscow car-bombing of Darya Dugina, daughter of “Putin’s Rasputin” Alexander Dugin, will lead to something worse than what’s already happening in Ukraine. Sorry, just can’t see it.
Conventional wisdom claims that Putin will react by cracking down harder. Uh, no. You might as well take your shot when you can, because when someone, be it Putin or any of America’s homegrown fascists, wants to crack down, they will use any excuse to do so.
Sometimes they’ll even manufacture the excuse, which is why some people think this was a false-flag operation. Others think anti-Putin Russian dissidents did it, but no matter who committed the crime, Ukraine will get the blame — in public. In Putin’s circle, such an assassination triggers paranoia at the top and has his supporters wondering which one of them will be next. Putin’s foes can tell them how that feels.
And no matter how Putin reacts, nobody can prove he wouldn’t have done it anyway.
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